Core movement and Spinal sequence
This video is a live recording from a Zoom class I taught last week. The practice begins by establishing natural breathing, which is a gentle and relaxed abdominal breathing. Such breathing calms the nervous system, softens the belly, and relaxes the lower back, and provides mobility for the core.
The natural breathing creates a pair of the most fundamental core movement: the flexion and extension of the body. This movement immediately affects the spine above and hips below.
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I tried to demonstrate how every movement ideally should be initiated from the core: in order to move the shoulders, the movement needs to travel from the core upward through the entire spine before it can reach the shoulders.
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Unilateral movement when initiated from the core creates spinal lateral extension and axial rotation, allows for rich, and three-dimensional movement in the entire torso, and provides infinite possibilities of movement through the interplay of the shoulder, elbow, and wrist joints.
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The "Nerve Tensioning" exercise, developed by Simon Borg-Oliver and Bianca Machliss of Yoga Synergy, is approached first as a set of five shoulder positions, and eventually, the positions are linked into a continuous movement that shifts its focus to the spine.
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The practice ends with a round of spinal movement I initially learned from Simon Borg-Olivier. This is one of the most effective, stand-alone set of exercises. Many of the issues that characterized the "modern body" such as tight front hips due to sitting, stiff spine, overuse of L5S1, how associated joint movement can at times help the body to move in a certain direction but at other times prevents a joint from reaching its range of motion, are addressed through this set of spinal movement.
In this video, each spinal movement is progressing with a series of "spirals" from the core upwards, while the spinal rotation is done in a series of "figure 8" patterns, upwards from the core. Doing these movements this way was initially an experiment, I noticed it brings in more relaxation and allows the movement to grow and seems to increase their longevity.
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